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#NYC: The troubled politics of the sheltering of 100,000 migrants. Harry Siegel #TheCity. NY Daily News

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🗓️ 17 August 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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#NYC: The troubled politics of the sheltering of 100,000 migrants. Harry Siegel #TheCity. NY Daily News
https://www.thecity.nyc/2023/8/14/23830661/migrants-backlash-city-council-elections

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0:00.0

This is CBS Eye on the World with John Bachelor. Here's John Bachelor.

0:12.4

Brooklyn, the Sunset Park Recreation Center. Right now, the center of the conversation that

0:18.7

debate the contest over what is to be done with up to 100,000 migrants, largely from the

0:26.2

Mexican-American border, brought here, dispatched here, bust here, by governors from the south

0:34.3

or by their own means, and gathering in the city, overwhelming these services as I understand

0:42.2

it, not only in Manhattan, where there was a very sad tragic scene of people who had no

0:49.6

resources crowded around the Roosevelt Hotel a week ago.

0:53.8

Now we spread to the five boroughs, and I welcome Harry Siegel, a senior editor at the

0:59.3

city, an online journal to help me understand this article is written by his colleagues Gwen

1:05.6

Hogan and Heidi Chu. Harry, a good evening to you. The Sunset Park Recreation Center competing

1:11.4

rallies for a city council street seat. The city council is going through, and I thought

1:19.3

they just had an election, and they're going through it again. And from the presentation

1:23.4

of this article, a big part of the conversation this year is not about the price of gasoline,

1:30.9

not about safety in the streets, but about the migrants, and the two sides, Republican

1:36.4

and Democrat, look to be taking the same position. Help me, Harry. Good evening to you.

1:42.1

Hey, good evening, John. So, about 100,000 migrants have arrived in New York City over

1:50.6

the last year, while a lot of the press coverage of this initially was about those who the governors

1:57.2

of Texas and Florida were busing up. Most of these migrants have come here on their own

2:04.8

through Catholic charities or otherwise. So this hasn't mostly been the red state people

2:10.8

bringing them in, although that certainly has occurred. And those numbers have been

2:16.3

pretty overwhelmed. John, there aren't really two sides in New York. There's just sort

2:22.0

of different sides within the Democratic Party, practically speaking, which controls every

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